This is ignorant, reductive nonsense. Far from looting India like the earlier Muslims, the British actually discovered the great cultural artifacts of India’s ancient civilization, and preserved them in the Royal Asiatic Library, and then proceeded to bequeath the legacy of enlightened, modern education to an India mired in illiteracy and credulity.
“an India mired in illiteracy and credulity”
Will Durant, American historian:
“India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.”
The only thing that prevented ISIS from destroying some of the greatest archaeological treasures in Southwest Asia is that the Brits already "looted" them and put them in the British Museum for safekeeping. And what ISIS didn't destroy, the criminal gangs would sell on the black market.
I have been the the former home of Mohandas K Gandhi in New Delhi, now used as his national "museum." It is a pathetic, tawdry display. I am the last person you would ever mistake for a "fan" of Gandhi but I was shocked and saddened that such was the best memorial they could afford for the man they revere as "Bapu Bapu," the father of their nation.
I couldn't help but think that all those articles would have been better looked after in Bloomsbury than in Baghdad.